Pet or Regret
🐾 National Cat Day · Thursday 29 October 2026

Pet or Regret

Every cat owner has been swatted mid-stroke. The cat was telling you. Learn to read ears, tails, pupils and whiskers, then prove it on eight cats at the Slow Blink Café.

What is this cat saying?

Things cats have been telling scientists

276distinct facial expressions recorded among cats at a Los Angeles cat café, built from 26 facial movements (Scott & Florkiewicz, 2023).
~380 HzThe hidden "cry" that some cats embed in a purr when they want food, which people rated as more urgent (McComb et al., 2009).
2,802cats rated by their owners to find the "Feline Five" personality factors (Litchfield et al., 2017).